Fun With Surveys-- Everybody Hates Joe Lieberman (Except GOP Insiders)

I don't know how trustworthy the Newsmax Magazine's survey of congressional popularity is. Newsmax is, after all, a far right propaganda instrument and one has to wonder which members of Congress actually got surveyed-- and which members just tossed their questionnaire into the circular file. Sherrod Brown and Dick Durbin make the most popular list-- along with kooks and crooks like Jon Kyl, Tom Price, Tom Coburn and Mike Ross. "Most Hated" looks like a better list to be on-- Dennis Kucinich, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Ron Paul, and Jim Moran-- if that neighborhood hadn't be polluted by fence-jumper Arlen Specter.

Perhaps more credible is the National Journal's two surveys-- one among bloggers and one among political insiders. The big loser was the Senate's biggest phony, John McCain. (Watch the video below.) Ominously, insiders seem to admire the least ethical and most disreputable members of their own parties as their best strategists: Rahm Emanuel and Karl Rove, mirror images of all that's wrong with American politics. Three politicians who scored most highly in the category "Pols Wearing Out Their Welcomes" are Lieberman, Bachmann and Palin. Most Creative Thinker is Barney Frank and MVPs are Dick Durbin and John Thune.

The blogger survey turned out very different from the Insiders' survey: